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Fancy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,113 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,113 in 1991; #9,049 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fancy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,049 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #3,113.
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Fancy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,113 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 36 (1991).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Fancy, making it the 9,049th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,333 places from #7,716 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 14 girls named Fancy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,113, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 36. For comparison, it was #9,134 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fancy in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 7 babies. In all, 573 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 160 babies named Fancy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 102 US girls were named Fancy; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,049 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,716 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,838 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,641 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,799 | — | — |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,004 | — | — |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,327 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,377 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,963 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,130 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,134 | — | — |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,162 | — | — |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,417 | — | — |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,959 | — | — |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,546 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,592 | — | — |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,200 | — | — |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,255 | — | — |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,645 | — | — |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,989 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,668 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,914 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,278 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,351 | — | — |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,760 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,377 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,803 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,985 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,874 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,685 | — | — |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,805 | — | — |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,498 | — | — |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,418 | — | — |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,113 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,665 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,627 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,927 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,392 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,577 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,442 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,502 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,704 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,517 | — | — |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,127 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,256 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,568 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,630 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,342 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,467 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,168 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,616 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).